Zegwaard, K., Coll, R. K., & Hodges, D. (2003). Assessment of workplace learning: A framework. Asia-Pacific Journal of Cooperative Education, 4(1), 9-18.
When used as an educational, rather than vocational strategy, work placements and internships are expected to provide for learning outside the classroom or lecture hall. Evaluation of work placements often become evaluation of programs or operational outcomes with little focus on evaluation of what learning has actually occurred. In this paper we present a framework for the assessment of workplace learning. This model is based on sociocultural theories of learning and draws upon experiences and theoretical underpinnings used in the education literature for socially-situated learning environments. The author’s argue that all learning is socially-mediated and thus assessment of learning must take into account the context, environment and objectives of the learning experience for individual learners.